Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-01-15
PEACE REIGNs IN ZION.

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thing indicates prosperity and peace
By the instructions of the presiding
Bishop, number of good men wen
to work, secured place of worship,
and made other necessary arrange
ments to organize a new church.
After this was done the Bishop sent
Rev. John A. d. Bloice, of Zion
Wesley College, to take charge, and
ON last Sabbath he preached two
most excellent sermons, and organized
by electing the necessary officers and
completing arrangements to run the
church.
Of course some feeling was mani
tested at first, and some hard and
false things said on both sides, but
we believe on sober reflection all
have agreed with the MESSENGER that
a peaceful separation is better than a
disagreeable union. Over forty per-
sons went in the new church in the
organization, and although the weather
was extremely cold, and bad walking
through the snow, all were much en-
couraged by good turnout and good
collections. The preacher, though
young, is one of the best in the Con-
ference, and is the peer of any young
preacher in the State.
We do not approve of having a
number of small churches of the same
faith in community, yet there may
be policies and principles which as
widely separate those of the same
faith as those Of different faith, ut
times. 1t should not be so, and
rather than lose a dozen of Zion 5
best members at one time, We en-
couraged the new church As it is,
Clinton Chapel will continue to hold
five or six hundred, while her minis
Ter remains loyal to lion, and the new
church will take care of itself, and
send no less than S25 general fund to
the next Annual Conference.
Since the feeling has now well-nigh
died out, we do not deem it amiss to
refer to some of the misnomers APP.
piled to the church. Some call it the
.'dry" church because the members
are all supposed to be prohibitionists
others call it the prohibition" church
the Temperance church." &C., fol
the same reason. We do not know
just how many of the members are
worthy of the name, but think all o.
them and all other church members
ought to be. Some others call it tht
''parlor" church, "Winnona circle, .
&C., thinking many of the members
belong to this worthy literary and
social circle. We are sorry more o
them do not belong to the Winnona
but only two of the male members o
this church and about half dozer
females belong to the Winnona.
1t may not be amiss here to exhor
the members of this new church t.
use the greatest care and caution t.
cultivate a Christian and brotherl,
feeling between themselves and al
Christians. The members of thi
church are no better than othel
Christians, and one makes a sad mis-
take when he thinks SO. A name ap
piled to them in derison should be ac
cepted IN christlanlike way, and thu
one of them who says to his enemy
"we are above the average, "w'
are all old citizens we have NJ
drunkards, . and such things as vii
create hard feelings, he is worsl
enemy to the new church than is OIL
the outside. If there is average in
teIligencessin the new church, it vii
show itself in the discretion, til,
eommonsense and Christlike actions
and lives of its members. Friends o
the new church-member or no
mcn.bers-will not congregatc Of
street corners, in barber-shops or bar
rooms. to discuss the merits and de
merits of the chnrch. This churcI
has no particular virtues that all othc
churches should not have, and wis,
friend viii not boast Of its virtues, o.
the streets.